Coastal and Shelf Seas Working Group (CSSWG)

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Coastal and Shelf Seas Working Group (CSSWG)

• P. De Mey, LEGOS

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Mission of the WG

• GODAE Strategic Plan (2000) Apply
  state-of-the-art ocean models and assimilation
  methods to produce short-range open-ocean
  forecasts, boundary conditions to extend
  predictability of coastal and regional
  subsystems, and initial conditions for climate
  forecast models.
• GODAE Development and Implementation Plan (2002)
  Climate and seasonal forecasting, navy
  applications, marine safety, fisheries, the
  offshore industry and management of shelf/coastal
  areas are among the expected beneficiaries of
  GODAE.
• The usefulness of GODAE systems to coastal and
  shelf seas forecasting will therefore be one of
  the measures of the success of the project.
• The mission of the GODAE CSSWG is to define,
  monitor and promote actions, within GODAE, aimed
  at the assessment and demonstration of the value
  of GODAE results for regional, coastal and shelf
  seas models and forecasting systems, within the
  2006-2008 time frame.

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Outline

• CSSWG activities
• Web site
• White paper
• Liverpool workshop
• Agenda items
• 35 Final version of WP
• 36 Feedback on list of coastal systems
• 37,38 GOOS regional forum
• Action items
• 29 Data products
• 17, 31 Demonstrations
• 10 Summer School

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CSSWG presenceon the web
CSSWG page
GODAE working groups on www.godae.org
Liverpool workshop site cobs.pol.ac.uk/cobs/CSSWG
(workshop reportexamples to appear on main
CSSWG page)
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White Paper (First edition)
Available on CSSWG webpage Circulated to IGST,
GOOS and more Agenda item 35 2nd edition
available before workshop

• 1 Rationale
• 2 Coastal and shelf seas downscaling within GODAE
• Uses of coastal models
• Links between large-scale and coastal models
• Ongoing/planned CSS downscaling projects linked
  to GODAE
• 3 Issues and requirements related to downscaling
• Critical issues and requirements
• Open issues
• 4 Proposed approach
• Coastal workshop(s), links with international
  activities, etc.
• Appendices
• CSSWG and contributors to PP
• Details of CSS projects
• Details of large-scale GODAE data producers
  models, products, data serving strategy
• The MERSEA and ECOOP European projects

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Updated CSS projects in 2nd edition of WP
(bold new or updated)
P19
P18
P20
P21-22
P23-24-25-26
P29
P27
P16
P28-31
P12
P17
P7
P30
P32-33-34-35
P6
P9-10-11
P8
P10-13-14-15
P4
P36
P31
P5
P3
P2
P1

• 36 projects
• Varied in objectives and methods
• Geographically clustered
• Africa 1
• Australia 2
• China Seas 2
• Japan Seas 3
• Indian Ocean 1

• North Pacific 1
• North America West Coast 4
• Gulf of Mexico 4
• North America East Coast 2
• Arctic and Nordic Seas 3
• Norwegian, Baltic, and North Seas 7
• Northeast Atlantic 4
• Mediterranean 4

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2007 GODAE Coastal and Shelf Seas
WorkshopAssessing the value of GODAE products
in coastal and shelf seas

• To be hosted at the Proudman Oceanographic
  Laboratory (POL), Liverpool, UK, on 10 - 11
  October 2007.
• Conveners Pierre De Mey (LEGOS) and Roger
  Proctor (POL)
• Objectives (as per White Paper)
• Assess the impact of GODAE products on
  downscaled/nested regional, coastal and shelf
  seas models value for such uses
• Share experience and procedures on important
  scientific issues of the coastal systems,
  including downscaling and initialization, tides
  and high frequencies, benefit evaluation and
  metrics, data assimilation.
• Status
• Pre-registration and call for papers closed,
  registration open on GODAE web site -- a few
  seats still available!
• Budget
• Workshop cost approx. 5k (room/food/coffee) on
  basis of 50 participants, covered by 75
  individual participation. PO agreed to top off if
  necessary.

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Liverpool Workshop expected attendance

• Expected participants 45
• White Paper CSS projects represented 28 (on a
  total of 36 in WPed2)
• White Paper experts 10
• Other experts and students 11
• GODAE PO 3
• IGST members 6

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2007 GODAE Coastal and Shelf Seas
WorkshopAssessing the value of GODAE products
in coastal and shelf seas (cont.)

• Expected outcomes
• Workshop report containing web-ready examples of
  using GODAE data for downscaling to coastal and
  shelf seas -- to be prepared by conveners for
  November (Action 31 item)
• Workshop will provide an opportunity to check the
  level of maturity of results. Depending on this,
  we may or may not need 2nd similar workshop
  before end of GODAE (Fraser had agreed to host?)
• If results found to be sufficiently mature,
  envisage Special Issue for the workshop
  proceedings? We have an invitation from Andy
  Moore, Editor-in-Chief for Dyn. Atm. Oc.
• Or a common paper in the GODAE Special issue? Or
  both?
• IGST advice welcome!
• Discussion on future of CSSWG beyond GODAE (to be
  prepared with Pierre-Yves/Mike with IGST feedback)

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Outline

• CSSWG activities
• Web site
• White paper
• Liverpool workshop
• Agenda items
• 35 Final version of WP -gt ed.1 ready since Dec.
  2006, ed.2 in Sept.
• 36 Feedback on list of coastal systems -gt got
  feedback from J. Kindle only
• 37,38 GOOS regional forum -gt we did our part, no
  feedback yet
• Action items
• 29 Data products
• 17, 31 Demonstrations
• 10 Summer School

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Outline

• CSSWG activities
• Web site
• White paper
• Liverpool workshop
• Agenda items
• 35 Final version of WP
• 36 Feedback on list of coastal systems
• 37,38 GOOS regional forum
• Action items
• 29 Data products -gt not sure of FHs docs status,
  discussion at workshop
• 17, 31 Demonstrations -gt workshop will provide
  input
• 10 Summer School -gtneed CSS module, tbd

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Thank you